NV had tons of utterly useless locations that were added to just increase the number of map markers.
"Deserted shack" for instance is nothing but an empty shack with a healing powder and some bottle caps.
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Deserted_shack
Saw a movie long ago where a human joins a band of vampires, one of the vamps was a ten-year-old kid. It was good, sadly I don't remember the name of the movie.